'From Outlaws Towards Inclusion' Conference 17 February 2012
 Together with the Intellectual Disability Rights Service and the
Criminal Justice Research Network UNSW, NSW CID presents:
“From outlaws
towards inclusion”.
A conference on 10 years of challenges and progress
in rights and human services for offenders with intellectual disability
in NSW.
Guest Speakers Professor Eileen Baldry, Jim Simpson, Representatives
from Legal Aid, Justice Health, IDRS & Corrective Services, will
cover a range of topics including:
• What it’s really like for a person with an intellectual disability
• What have we learnt about addressing offending behaviour?
• Mental Health
• Drugs and Alcohol
• The latest research
• 10 years of challenges and progress since The Framework Report
More Information is available from these links:
Click here to go to the registration form.
Click here to see the Framework Report
Click here to see a Plain English version of the Framework Report
See below for the Framework + 5 Report
Framework + 5 Report
The NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (NSW CID) has taken a
central role in issues relating to offenders with intellectual
disabilities for many years, in particular through joint production of
The Framework Report (2001) on the human service needs of offenders with
intellectual disabilities.
The problem has been that people with intellectual disabilities have not
had the human services that they need to give them a fair chance of
avoiding trouble with the law and imprisonment. As well as the obvious
human cost of this problem, there is a great financial cost to
government in police time, courts and legal aid, imprisonment and the
cost of ineffective, ad hoc responses by human services.
In the years since release of The Framework Report, some valuable
reforms have occurred. The NSW Government deserves applause for some
substantial inroads into a major social problem. However, reform has
been patchy and still awaits strong coordination across government.
For more information see below NSW CID's Framework + 5 report which
details progress that occurred in the five years after release of the
Framework Report..
Framework +5 report
Presentation 'Compulsion via Guardianship - Outmoded or the Rights Approach?'
NSW CID's Senior Advocate Jim Simpson presented this paper at the 6th ACSO Forensic Disabilities Conference 'New Paradigms, Old Challenges' in October 2011.
Click here to view his presentation.
Enabling Justice
Enabling Justice is a report which highlights problems for alleged offendors with intellectual disability in the NSW Local Court System. Opportunities to divert people into support services that will avoid repeat offending are being lost. The result is people with intellectual disability being highly represented in prison where they are vulnerable to abuse.
Justice Virginia Bell of the NSW Court of Appeal launched the Enabling Justice report at State Parliament House on 21st May 2008.
Enabling Justice was produced by the Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS), in conjunction with the Coalition on Intellectual Disability and Criminal Justice and NSW CID.
NSW CID and IDRS have been advocating for action on the report. For a progress report on action, see the paper below.
 Enabling Justice Implementation Update
Enabling Justice report
NSW Ombudsman's Report
The NSW Ombudsman has released a report about people with intellectual disability in the criminal justice system.
In 2002, the NSW Government established a Senior Officer’s Group to work on improving outcomes for people with an intellectual disability in contact with the criminal justice system. The Ombudsman has tabled a report in Parliament which states that the Senior Officer’s Group has not been meeting its objectives.
The Ombudsman said that “People with an intellectual disability are over-represented and face significant disadvantage in all areas of the criminal justice system. While NSW Government agencies have recognised that a comprehensive interagency approach is necessary to meet the needs of these individuals, we have concerns about the progress of this collaborative work.”
To read the report, click on the link below.
NSW Ombudsman's Report
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